I am a long time xterm user. As a Sys Admin I connect to many, many Linux systems. My practice has been to use XQuartz to connect to a central system from which I can access all the other systems. There in my Linux account I have a bash script which takes a system name for an argument and opens a new xterm and connects with ssh (using keys) to the system I need. Thus with a very few key strokes I can access any of my systems in a new window. I would like to try using iTerm2 but I can't figure out how to start an iTerm on my mac from my remote server. Is this possible?
Thank you.
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Here's what happened. On the machines I was trying to reach (10.x.y.182 and 10.x.y.194), in the time when I was not using them they had their hard disks replaced and the OS reinstalled. This gave them new SSH keys, invalidating the ones I had in my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. Unfortunately, Terminal.app did not surface this problem to me.
By deleting the entries for those machines in ~/.ssh/known_hosts, I forced the system to pull down the new keys and ask me if I wanted to use them. With this done, connections worked perfectly as usual. Oddly, however, even before I changed ~/.ssh/known_hosts, connections using the DNS name of the machine (svr10 and svr20) worked. Weird.
Thanks, everyone, who looked at this problem.
It turns out the answer had been on the screen all along. There's a + button under both the Services side and the Servers side. You can add to both.
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No you can't start iTerm from a remote server.
But then macOS is not XWindows so you would use a different way.
The way is to have the information about all the servers on your Mac
Create a profile for each server in ITerm each one opening a ssh session.
Then to access any system in a new window just open the correct Profile.
To speed things up each profile can be give a different keyboard shortcut.